Witching Chronicles: Exploring HOWLING GIANT’s Crucible & Ruin
No intro, no warning, just fuzz and lift-off. Feels like HOWLING GIANT finally got the mics pointed in the right direction – real air moving, not that boxy home stuff. You can hear the sticks hit, the amps breathe, somebody probably yelling off-mic. Good sign! HOWLING GIANT are still a heavy, fuzzy, psych-tinged rock band, […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of Deep River Acolytes
Deep River Acolytes interview answered by Ari Rajaniemi (gtr) and Timo Hiivala (gtr). The Origin & Identity: How did you all come together as a band, and when did it feel real? AR: – In 2010 I found myself in a situation that the previous band I was playing in (Sigil. Heavy rock / grunge) […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring SOLAR SONS’ Altitude
There’s a point where riffs stop sounding like you’re trying and start sounding like you just are. Solar Sons hit that somewhere along the line. You can hear it all over Altitude, their sixth record, tracked fast in some cold room called Nameless City Sound. Eight days. Probably smelled of coffee and warm valve amps. […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The DUSTED ANGEL’s This Side Of The Dirt
Some records hit you in the gut. Others in the teeth. This Side of the Dirt does both. First note drops and you feel it in your ribcage, like a van rolling over your spine. Dusted Angel didn’t come back to make a point – they came back because they couldn’t not. Fifteen years since […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring Danakil Heat’s Doomsday Delight
Danakil Heat don’t really sound like a new band anymore. There’s too much dirt in the gears for that. Doomsday Delight comes on quick – three tracks, no time to stretch – and still manages to feel bigger than it is. The fuzz hits first, that thick Helsinki tone, half-garage, half-machine. It doesn’t wait around […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring BREATH’s Brahman
You can tell right away BREATH aren’t trying to make “songs”. Brahman sounds like they’re summoning something – slow, old, and not entirely friendly, but not evil either. It’s that big middle space between calm and collapse. Everything feels stretched out and deliberate, like they’re chasing the space inside the sound, not the sound itself. […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of Born Slave
The Origin & Identity How did you all come together as a band, and when did it feel real? Kostas: We met at different times, all sharing the same need to create something genuine — without pretension or labels. When we started writing our first songs and felt how naturally the connection flowed between us, […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring Bentrees’ Silver Veins
It’s been four years since Two of Swords, and Bentrees finally drop Silver Veins. Six tracks, no filler, no showing off – just that thick, hypnotic low-end fuzz they’ve been hammering since the early days. Recorded at Sonusville Studio in Siliqua, it sounds like it – earthy, not overproduced, just real instruments in a room, […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of Poste 942
French mainstays and rock chameleons POSTE 942 have been plying their trade in the heavy underground since 2010, and their latest album sees the five-piece continue to push forward their sound with no signs of slowing down. Released this June, “#chaleurhumaine” radiates its namesake warmth in Virginie D.’s soulful vocals and the pulsing, fuzzed-out riffs, […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of CRUZEIRO
Doom band from Galicia, Spain The Origin & Identity: How did you all come together as a band, and when did it feel real? -Cruzeiro started with bassist Raposa and guitarist Gon B aiming to start a stoner doom project back in 2017. But there wasn’t until late 2019 Cruzeiro get a real state when […]